2007 Minnesota Statutes

18D.103 REPORT OF INCIDENTS REQUIRED.
    Subdivision 1. Report to commissioner. A responsible party or an owner of real
property must, on discovering an incident has occurred, immediately report the incident to the
commissioner. The responsible party must immediately take all reasonable action necessary to
minimize or abate the incident and to recover any agricultural chemicals involved in the incident
with or without a directive from the commissioner.
    Subd. 2. Written report. The responsible party must submit a written report of the incident
to the commissioner in the form and by the time prescribed by the commissioner.
    Subd. 3. Exception. A responsible party or an owner of real property who is a licensed or
certified private or commercial pesticide applicator is not required to report an incident to the
commissioner under this section if the amount of pesticide involved in the release plus any other
releases which have occurred at the site during the preceding year is less than the maximum
amount of the pesticide that, consistent with its label, can be applied to one acre of agricultural
crop land unless the release occurred into or near public water or groundwater.
History: 1989 c 326 art 7 s 3; 1990 c 597 s 7; 1993 c 367 s 17